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Independent thought
Higher cognitive ability and other psychological factors predict support for free speech
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Psychological Tip of The Day
Confidence has to match competence. Otherwise it’s ego inflation and delusional.
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How to see external reality
Our minds don’t just distort reality—they hide it. Not out of malice, but out of self-preservation. The raw, unfiltered world is too much. It’s chaos, uncertainty, death, betrayal, awe, beauty, loss—all at once. So the mind builds a narrative, a little safe zone made of stories: who we are, what the world is, why things…
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Misc Profundity
Power isn’t in the strike. It’s in the discipline that precedes the strike.
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Zennish Aphorisms
A missing puzzle piece is two things at once; the piece itself, and the hole it makes in the larger puzzle.
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Eat The Rich
Here’s an experiment to try for those that take glee in wealth redistribution. Ask yourself why you find emotional pleasure in that. Ignore the first reason that comes to mind; that’s the one that’s been programmed into you. Dig deeper. Bon apetit! 😁
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Abandon hope…
You don’t necessarily need to have hope. You just don’t need to have despair.
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Deep Thoughts
The more you move into the subjective, the more you move away from the world of the factual and into the world of belief. It’s an important distinction to keep in mind.
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Crowd of one.
This is an interesting view of the structure of the mind. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/internal-family-systems-therapy?amp